by Investment in Japan
Policies and business activities related to Japan investment opportunities
Japan’s trading houses to step up asset sale to defy resource slump
Why Japan should sell assets and spend big on research
“Should be an inevitable path.”
Futuristic Japanese hotel will be run almost entirely by robots
Japanese bank introduces robot workers to deal with customers in branches
“Employment or automation…?”
Recent News
Business
Japan execs leaving Citigroup, EG Capital flags wider loan retreat
Sony lifts operating income forecast into the black
Ten-Company Consortium Awarded Bid to Develop Wind Farm Project in Niigata
Japan’s deflationary challenge caught in a bottle of ketchup
JA-Zenchu accepts drastic farm cooperative reforms
INCJ to invest in next-generation DNA sequencer development company, Quantum Biosystems Inc.
Japan Refinery Rivals Turn to Allies Amid Fuel Import Threat
Japan, Mongolia pact may boost car exports
Policies
Japan to retain deputy chief post at IMF as Furusawa named
Japan aims to restart nuclear reactor in June: sources
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GPIF’s selection of equity investment managers
Japanese public institutions lead foreign share buying at record pace
Japan’s GPIF hands out active stock mandates
Economy
Government taps Abenomics supporter for the bank’s policy board
20 million tourists no pipe dream
Japan’s Record Overseas Income Shows Upside of Output Shift
Japan reaffirms commitment to rail while pushing for early elections
Global Watch:January 2015 “Japanese Economy” (murc)
BOJ’s Kuroda says weaker oil prices a plus for global economy
Japan Is Considering Making Vacation Mandatory. The U.S. Should, Too
How Japan Borrows $9 Trillion Practically for Free
Tim Geithner: Europe in a worse spot than Japan
The Bank of Japan’s Efforts toward Overcoming Deflation
Market
Gulf institutional funds favour Japan, Asia, shun Europe – Pictet
Japan Sold All But Bunds as German Yields Were Turning Japanese
And more
Japan’s top farmers’ union to give local cooperatives more power